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Summary: The best out of the 3
Review: Beauty, Tristan and Laurent are in a foreign country and they are being used as slaves. This is the better book because it focuses more on Laurent and Tristan. Laurent shows himself as being strong and capable of providing a very nice punishment. Tristan shows that he stills needs a rough hand, and likes it. This is an excellent book, and I wish there was another one. I liked the ending, it was a happy one.
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Summary: The occasional pinky finger suits me just fine, thank you.
Review: Every time this book started to get me going it lost me by sticking some unrealistically massive object up another characters hiney hole. This resulted in any erotic thoughts I might have had turning into, "Wow, I bet that hurt" or "This guy must have a hole the size of a cave to enjoy that". Bigger may be better, but sooner or later the law of diminishing returns kicks in.
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Summary: I loved the first two, but with all the gay stuff, boring!
Review: For me, Anne Rice really got me turned on with the first two in this trilogy. They were well written and stylish. The problem with this one is: Arabia. Why cart the slaves off there? Personally, I think she should have ended it with the Punishment. The constant gay sex that makes this book a complete bore. END
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Summary: Tantalizing conclusion to a memorable erotic trilogy!
Review: Having just finished Beauty's Release, the final volume of Anne Rice's exquisite erotic trilogy, a feeling of loss has descended upon me. I won't read more of Beauty's introduction to the dark and taboo world of domination and submission. And, more importantly, I won't be able to get lost in Rice's insightful and thought provoking implications of the human heart and desire. Alas, I shall settle with rereading the trilogy some time in the future.
In Beauty's Release, Beauty, along with Princes Tristan and Laurent, is faced with the unnerving fact that she has to adjust to life as captive of an Eastern Sultan. Having admitted that she's never felt love for her superiors, she hasn't envisaged the fact that the new and strange palace might just show her the meaning of selfless love and devotion... The ending reminds the reader that this is a fairytale -- a rather interesting fairytale, but one nevertheless. The twists and turns in the novel make it far from predictable. Rice's fanciful and unique writing shines as the story reaches its climax. As mentioned earlier, I will miss Beauty's journey into the incomprehensible and uninhibited world of forbidden carnal desire. Anne Rice awakens your psyche and passion with this wonderful piece of work. I recommend this to readers with an open mind.
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Summary: Great end!
Review: I loved the last scene when Beauty makes her suitor stand on a stool; then she does you-know-what with that candlestick. Poor guy.
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Summary: One reason to read this....
Review: is the menage-a-trois between Laurent, Tristan and Lexius. I am a woman, and never in my life could I have imagined that a male homosexual scene would do this to me. I made love with my husband three times the same day I read this. So much emotion, love, depth and pure raw sex and hunger. It's one of the most fascinating scenes I've ever read.
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Summary: Very Erotic and Sexy
Review: It has everything in it that you would never dream of Anne Rice doing. But it is the best series that I have ever read that is this type of book. Beauty was a great read for adults. I recommend you to read this if you want to spice up your love life. But don't just read one of the books read the whole series. Don't be left hanging and not know what happened I didn't.
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Summary: good enough
Review: Laurent's adventures are far more exciting here than are Beauty's. Laurent undergoes some pretty humiliating trials, like when he is made to walk in a squat, while his arms are bound behind his back onto a phallus. I also like it when he and Tristan have to become "ponies"--even having to wear long bushy tails on their bottoms, and being spanked as they pull heavy loads.
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Summary: BDSM is its own reward.
Review: Punishment is its own reward. The third book of the series declines a little as Rice tries to find new erotic adventures for our heroine, Beauty. She and Tristan are captured by Arabs and taken to some far off land where their torments continue. However, that isn't part of the bargain that the Kingdom of torment makes with their parents, so they are rescued back and returned to their village slavery. Tristan is just returning to his life as a carriage horse when he receives word that his father has died and he is now King. He is immediately released from bondage and sent home. Beauty eventually also goes home as a properly trained young princess, but finds life in her parent's castle boring. She's beginning to find interesting things to do with candles when Prince Tristan, now King Tristan comes to ask for her hand in marriage. She agrees, but only if he holds her in erotic bondage, a life of torment and eroticism. They ride off into the sunset together with her being forced to endure a deliberatly painful ride just because.
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Summary: BDSM is its own reward.
Review: Punishment is its own reward. The third book of the series declines a little as Rice tries to find new erotic adventures for our heroine, Beauty. She and Tristan are captured by Arabs and taken to some far off land where their torments continue. However, that isn't part of the bargain that the Kingdom of torment makes with their parents, so they are rescued back and returned to their village slavery. Tristan is just returning to his life as a carriage horse when he receives word that his father has died and he is now King. He is immediately released from bondage and sent home. Beauty eventually also goes home as a properly trained young princess, but finds life in her parent's castle boring. She's beginning to find interesting things to do with candles when Prince Tristan, now King Tristan comes to ask for her hand in marriage. She agrees, but only if he holds her in erotic bondage, a life of torment and eroticism. They ride off into the sunset together with her being forced to endure a deliberatly painful ride just because.
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